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No. S 165

Registration of Deeds Act

(Chapter 269)

Registration of Deeds (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 29 of the Registration of Deeds Act, the Minister for Law hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Registration of Deeds (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2000.

Deletion and substitution of First Schedule

2. The First Schedule to the Registration of Deeds Rules (R 1) is deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:

“FIRST SCHEDULE

Rule 30

Fees

1.—(1)

For registering or provisionally registering every memorial or instrument

$28

(2)

For taking an acknowledgment, statutory declaration of proof by affidavit of the due execution of any instrument for each party sworn or making acknowledgment and for giving a certificate of such acknowledgment, declaration or proof

For preparing a memorial required under section 5 of the Act

$20

For preparing a copy of or extract from any plan

$32

For search or inspection (not being an official search) of the register or any book kept in the Registry under the Act or any previous enactment or any document or extract from the Register of Mutations in Titles to land kept under Indian Act XVI of 1839 or any other records maintained for public inspection at the Registry

$2 per person per day

Application for an official search, including the issue of a certificate of the search, of each lot in the Registry of any books, indices or documents kept under the Act or any previous written law and any rules made thereunder and in the Lot Base System

$30

For issuing a summons under section 12 of the Act

$10

For service of a summons under section 12 of the Act (in addition to cost of transport of process server)

$10

8.—(1)

For supplying a copy, reproduced by any means, of any of the following documents available for public search:

$1 per page or part thereof

(a)

index of land book

(b)

index to survey numbers

(c)

index of caveat book

(d)

(2)

For supplying a copy, reproduced by any means, of any other deed or document (not listed in paragraph (1)) available for public search

$4 per deed or document

For certification of a copy of any deed, document or extract from any document enrolled in the register, book or index maintained at the Registry (including cost of supplying such copy)

$3 per page or part thereof.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 509/91; S315/92; S 133/93; S 45/94; S 286/95;S 501/95; S 160/96; S 120/98; S 572/99;S 57/2000]

Made this 28th day of March 2000.

NIAM CHIANG MENG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[AAY/JT/SLR 9/76 Vol. 12; AG/LEG/SL/269/99/1 Vol. 1]